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Names in the News

September 30, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Vollmer named UCCE nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor Laura Vollmer joined UC Cooperative Extension in San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties on Sept. 8, 2020, as a nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor.
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Getting a flu vaccine in 2020 is more important than ever

September 24, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
With the novel coronavirus still infecting thousands of people a day, public health officials worry that a bad flu season could overwhelm hospitals and clinics that are already stretched thin. The best thing you can do to make sure that doesn't happen: Get a flu shot.
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Dim Sum and a Garden

September 23, 2020
A few weeks ago, I heard that my mom and my brother were going on a road trip to San Francisco. Normally, I wouldn't care to go. I hated the traffic. But since the only road trips I've had in months had been going to the grocery store or picking-up take-out food, I wanted to go.
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Electronic Records Management webinar Oct. 1

September 14, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Are you concerned about all of the things you are using to create and receive records while you are working from home? Do you know what you need to manage and how?
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Cattle grazing is a tool for reducing fire danger

September 10, 2020
Reposted from the UCANR news Cattle can help reduce wildfire danger by grazing on fine fuels in rangeland and forest landscapes, reported Sierra Dawn McClain in Capital Press. The article also appeared in the Blue Mountain Eagle, the Westerner and the East Oregonian.
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Cattle grazing reduces wildfire fuel in rural areas.
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Cattle grazing is a tool for reducing fire danger

September 10, 2020
Cattle can help reduce wildfire danger by grazing on fine fuels in rangeland and forest landscapes, reported Sierra Dawn McClain in Capital Press. The article also appeared in the Blue Mountain Eagle, the Westerner and the East Oregonian.
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Good news continues!

September 8, 2020
Despite the television news (stock market, Rochester, fires, temperatures) the good news continues in UC ANR! Laura Ann Yee Vollmer started this week as the Nutrition, Family and Consumer Sciences Adviser, based in Half Moon Bay, with programmatic responsibilities in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and San...
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